Of value for the work of the Massachusetts prize courts.
Virginia Gazette for 1779. Williamsburg.
Prints a valuable letter about Massachusetts privateers.
Weymouth Historical Society Publications. 2 vols. Boston, 1881-85.
Volume I gives the best account of the Penobscot expedition, and prints the original Journal of General Solomon Lovell kept on the expedition.
Winsor, Justin. Narrative and Critical History of the United States. 8 vols. Boston and New York, 1884-89.
Article on the Revolutionary navy by E. E. Hale, in Volume VI, contains information on the Massachusetts navy. Valuable bibliography.
Works of John Adams. 10 vols. Boston, 1856.
Gives John Adams’s opinion of the Massachusetts statute establishing privateering.